Shoeless Joe Summary
W. P. Kinsella

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Shoeless Joe Summary

Canadian writer W. P. Kinsella's first novel, Shoeless Joe, published in Boston in 1982, is an ingenious baseball story that smoothly weaves together fact and fantasy. The narrator, Ray Kinsella, is a baseball fanatic and dreamer who owns a farm in Iowa. One day he hears a mysterious voice saying, "If you build it, he will come." Ray believes this is an instruction to build a baseball field at his farm and that the...

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Encyclopedia Articles (1)

Jackson, "Shoeless" Joe (1887-1951)

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Jackson, &#X0022;Shoeless" Joe (1887-1951) "Shoeless" Joe Jackson endures in baseball lore as the game's tragic hero, the naive country boy who became embroiled with big-ti... Read more

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Joe is Shoeless

348 words, approx. 2 pages

    In Shoeless Joe, written by W.P Kinsella, the book is about dreams coming true, a little bit of magic, wild imaginations, and wishes coming true. The story centers its main character, Ra... Read more

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson

705 words, approx. 3 pages

JOE JACKSON Joe Jackson was born on July 16, 1889 in Pickens County, South Carolina. Joe was 6 years old when he played organized baseball w... Read more

Themes of Shoeless Joe, Religion and Dreams

572 words, approx. 2 pages

The novel Shoeless Joe was written by W.P. Kinsella in 1982. The story Ray Kinsella, a Iowa farmer, who builds a full size base ball field in his corn fields because a mysterious voice who he calls h... Read more

Review of Shoeless Joe

703 words, approx. 3 pages

Imagine, you're working on your field in Iowa and you hear a voice, " If you build it, he will come." This is the beginning of a whole new life for Ray Kinsella in "Shoeless Joe." Ray is a young farm... Read more

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